Man and youth arrested after fight on MRT train along East-West Line

The train stopped at Raffles Place MRT station after a passenger pressed the emergency stop button.P

PHOTO: Screengrab from Facebook/WX Bourne

SINGAPORE - A man and a youth were arrested after a fight in the cabin of an MRT train on Wednesday morning (Nov 7).

A video of the incident, which has been making the rounds on social media, shows a person in a dark-coloured jacket trading blows with another person wearing a T-shirt in the last carriage of a train. Other commuters, including one with a child, are seen moving to other parts of the train during the scuffle.

While someone can be heard at the beginning of the video shouting at the pair to stop, no one interferes with the fight on the East-West Line.

The police said that they were alerted to a case of affray at 5 Raffles Place at 10.48am.